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AMD Chip Fraud Delays Release of New Chipset

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-cricket dept.

rocketman768 writes "According to internetnews.com a workshop in Taipei has been re-labeling nearly a million AMD Athlon XPs. It seems AMD is spending more time investigating this than on releasing their new Alchemy chipset which boasts direct transfer of video from digital video recorders to portable players without the need to transcode through a PC."

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  1. AMD by bharatk · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess noone noticed their chips were manafactured by "Advanced Moocro Devices".

    1. Re:AMD by mollusk · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey, I know a genuine 'Panaphonics' when I see one.

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  2. what's the big deal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they're just doing the overclocking for you! saves the customer time, really.

  3. Excuse me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It seems AMD is spending more time investigating this than on releasing their new Alchemy chipset

    Yes, I'm sure they've taken their fab plant workers and assigned them to detective jobs instead.

  4. Re:I need some magic glasses too by Ed+Thomson · · Score: 5, Funny

    AMD have a "jack of all trades" type workforce. Instead of everyone working on different projects and getting lots of things done slowly, they all work on the same thing at the same time to get a few things accomplished really fast.

    So yes the whole company stopped working on releasing the new chipset and are now all working on the investigating the re-labeling.

  5. Mismarked chips? by bob+beta · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean the numbers on those chips don't designate their clock speed?!?

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  6. Its the latest thing. Soon evryne will be doing it by Pizaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    AMD has even filed a patent for it. They are calling it Enterprise Level Preemptive Multitasking.